Gotta love that respect for democracy there. A couple dozen people voted to block the ability of the people to exercise their right to hold a referendum because another small group of people write the checks.

naughtyrev:Gotta love that respect for democracy there. A couple dozen people voted to block the ability of the people to exercise their right to hold a referendum because another small group of people write the checks.

So you'd rather have someone come in with strep and infect the entire, or if they are in food service, many many more people, than to have them stay home two days and come in when they are no longer contagious? is that what I'm seeing?

ManateeGag:So you'd rather have someone come in with strep and infect the entire, or if they are in food service, many many more people, than to have them stay home two days and come in when they are no longer contagious? is that what I'm seeing?

Welcome to Florida. They don't believe in Darwinian evolution, they just practice survival of the fittest.

Let the companies do as they will. So long as the executives are equally exposed to the sneezes and germs, I'm all for this. Otherwise, this is class-based discrimination and segregated working conditions.

But won't someone please think of the poor company administrator that will have to deal with a "patchwork of laws" regarding sick leave?

Heaven forbid the poor administrator has to have different sick leave policies for its stores in Tampa and Orlando.

I love how the GOP always gives handouts to business then tries to claim that it's just trying to make the system "efficient." I guess eliminating regulations is "efficient" in that it makes it easier for companies to not provide paid sick leave. But I think there's a problem with a political party who thinks the only obligation of the government is to help businesses save money - particularly where it's at the expense of public health.

If you get sick, you shouldn't come to work. that would be cruel and unusual, not to mention bad policy. You should simply be fired for cause (getting sick), lose your health insurance, and not receive unemployment benefits. They are lawful, not chaotic, evil

"There is a need for uniform regulation throughout the state," said Simmons. "If you happen to be an employer who has multiple locations, you can imagine if you had to deal with a patchwork of various regulations. In the local government, it would be a disaster."

You mean a patchwork of various regulations like local sales tax? Local sales tax has really turned into a farking disaster for employers with multiple locations...

codergirl42:"There is a need for uniform regulation throughout the state," said Simmons. "If you happen to be an employer who has multiple locations, you can imagine if you had to deal with a patchwork of various regulations. In the local government, it would be a disaster."

You mean a patchwork of various regulations like local sales tax? Local sales tax has really turned into a farking disaster for employers with multiple locations...

It's why there is no such thing as a multinational corporation either.

mrshowrules:Flint Ironstag: I'm off work sick at the moment, and coughing violently while infectious, and have visited my doctor three times in the last couple of weeks, so I'm really getting a kick etc.

Thankfully I live in the socialist paradise of Great Britain so I get sick pay and the doctor visits cost me nothing. Each course of antibiotics did cost me $12 though.

Did they administer the antibiotics? Because even that would have been free here in Canada.

Prescriptions in the UK are a flat rate of £7.85 per prescription. Kids, the elderly, expectant and new mothers, certain unemployed and other very poor people and people with particular illnesses get prescriptions for free.

mrshowrules:Flint Ironstag: I'm off work sick at the moment, and coughing violently while infectious, and have visited my doctor three times in the last couple of weeks, so I'm really getting a kick etc.

Thankfully I live in the socialist paradise of Great Britain so I get sick pay and the doctor visits cost me nothing. Each course of antibiotics did cost me $12 though.

Did they administer the antibiotics? Because even that would have been free here in Canada.

I hate both of you.

Would either of you be interested in a sham marriage so I can get the hell out of the US?

Anyway, are people starting to understand yet that corporate greed is a huge problem? *crickets*

Needlessly Complicated:mrshowrules: Flint Ironstag: I'm off work sick at the moment, and coughing violently while infectious, and have visited my doctor three times in the last couple of weeks, so I'm really getting a kick etc.

Thankfully I live in the socialist paradise of Great Britain so I get sick pay and the doctor visits cost me nothing. Each course of antibiotics did cost me $12 though.

Did they administer the antibiotics? Because even that would have been free here in Canada.

I hate both of you.

Would either of you be interested in a sham marriage so I can get the hell out of the US?

Anyway, are people starting to understand yet that corporate greed is a huge problem? *crickets*

Corporate greed isn't the problem. It is the voters not electing politicians who put checks and balances in place against the corporate greed. Despite having single-payer, Canada still has a robust private sector economy in health care and health care insurance.

Diogenes:naughtyrev: Gotta love that respect for democracy there. A couple dozen people voted to block the ability of the people to exercise their right to hold a referendum because another small group of people write the checks.

Yep. Take Orange County for example.

The people have no say. But entertainment and hospitality lobbyists can work the commissioners like freaking marionettes while the actual debate was occurring.

Not to mention they all deleted their text messages on their county-issued cell phones to each other and their lobbyist buddies (WHEN this actual hearing was going on), then pulled the "Should I have not done that? Was that wrong?" card.

It's not just Florida. The "small gub'mint" Republicans here in NC have introduced a sweeping bill that will allow any state environmental protection regulations/laws to override any local ones. I could have read it wrong, but it looks like that bill will also allow for certain private land exemptions from environmental laws too. No big deal until you realize that there are some pretty nasty things on private land that would affect public aquifers